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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse GOP Pushes Ban On Non-Existing Sex-Selective Abortion Problem
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/29/491586/republicans-push-sex-selective-abortion-ban/By Amanda Peterson Beadle on May 29, 2012 at 4:30 pm
House Republicans will force a vote tomorrow on a controversial abortion ban that would prevent sex-selective abortions. The bill seeks to somehow protect the civil rights of fetuses by banning physicians from performing abortions based on the fetus sex. While the woman would be exempt from prosecution, physicians who perform the procedure can be sued for damages.
Before GOP leaders bring up the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) under a suspension of House rules, which will require two-thirds majority for passage, anti-choice organizations have been lobbying for it. In a clumsy attempt to subvert the War on Women meme, the National Right to Life Committee warned members of Congress against supporting a war on baby girls:
Of course, pro-life Members will support this legislation. But it is to be hoped that even many Members who deem themselves pro-choice will recoil at the notion that freedom of choice must include even the choice to abort a little unborn girl, merely because she is a girl. Members who recently have embraced contrived political rhetoric asserting they are resisting a war on women must reflect on whether they wish to be recorded as being defenders of the escalating war on baby girls.
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House GOP Pushes Ban On Non-Existing Sex-Selective Abortion Problem (Original Post)
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pnwmom
(109,021 posts)1. I'm not sure it's non-existent. My daughter had a young married friend
who was being pressured by her husband's family to abort because the fetus was a girl. They came from a country where this was fairly common. I never found out what she decided to do.
There can be a good reason to abort for reasons of sex -- there are some diseases that are only passed on the y chromosome. But no one should be able to pressure someone to do so, as the family was pressuring this woman.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)2. And no one should be able to pressure
someone not to, if that is what the woman wants and chooses.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)3. Of course. n/t